| Title: | Careen |
| Original Title: | Carene |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 2 (1752), p. 683 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Mark K. Jensen [Pacific Lutheran University] |
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| Citation (MLA): | "Careen." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Mark K. Jensen. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2020. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.958>. Trans. of "Carene," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 2. Paris, 1752. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Careen." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Mark K. Jensen. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.958 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Carene," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 2:683 (Paris, 1752). |
CAREEN, Keel , is a big long piece of wood (or several pieces placed end to end) that protrudes outside in the deepest part of a vessel from stern to prow and serves as the vessel’s foundation. See Keel. The word careen is often taken more generally to mean the entire part of the vessel that extends from the keel to the water-line; thus we say to careen a vessel, give a careening, heave to a vessel into careening, to signify that we are refitting the bottom of the ship.
CAREENING , [1] is the work done to calk and refit a vessel in its quick works, that is, those that go under water.
Parliament-heeling or Boot-topping , [2] is when it is desired to careen a vessel but only half of its bottom can be worked on, which can be reached only toward the keel.
Complete careening is when an entire side can be careened all the way to the keel.
1. Two terms are given in French: “CARENE, CRAN.” Littré gives this term and the two following, and indicates that carénage is also a term signifying this work. In the Encyclopédie , however, the word carénage is only defined as the place the work is done, and not the work itself.
2. A single term in the original: “Demi-carene.”